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EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… 1990 and the country's first fully democratic elections in 1994. Biko was one of the University of Natal's Black Campus …
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… Army (AZANLA). AZAPO boycotted the participation in the 1994 elections but has continued to participate in subsequent …
EventRoman Catholic Bishop Augustin Misago, cleared of genocide charges
… on 14 April 1999 and charged with helping orchestrate the 1994 Rwandan genocide that left more than 800 000 Tutsi and …
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… former President Nelson Mandela at his inauguration in 1994. It has been suggested that Mbuli's life came under …
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… its policy on the use of landmines. For instance, in 1994 the former South African government announced a …
PlaceGoshen
… Mafeking to serve as Bophuthatswana's capital. After the 1994 elections the two towns were merged under the name …
EventWorld Teachers Day - “Build the future: invest in teachers now!”
… at the International Conference on Education in Geneva in 1994, with the primary intention to focus public attention on …
EventPallo Jordan opens the Mbuzini Samora Machel Public Library
… first democratic elections were held in South Africa in 1994, an investigation by the Truth and Reconciliation …
EventJoe Slovo dies
… During his months as a Cabinet Minister in the post 1994 government, Slovo was charged to deliver on one of … [online], Available at www.moreorless.net.au …
EventMalawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades
… officials, held a massive rally in January 1993. On 16 May 1994, the National Assembly adopted a provisional …
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… Women's Day is not celebrated in South Africa. Since 1994, Women's Day is celebrated with a public holiday on the …
EventCI and SACC offices are raided
… On 27 November 1976 the offices of the Christian Institute (CI) …
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver 'OR' Tambo, is born
… On 27 October 1917, Oliver Tambo, who would become African …
EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the 'Colour-bar'
… - man play "The Blood knot" and his co-actor Zakes Mokae, 27, from Johannesburg arrived in Cape Town to stage a three …
PlaceSebokeng Township, Johannesburg
… in 1984. This saw radical fighting which only ended in 1994. Which then allowed for much needed, community building. … in 1984. This saw radical fighting…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of the 90th birthday of former President Nelson Mandela, 2 August 2008
… days", you said. Indeed you have continued to do so. For 27 years, as you languished in prison, millions could only … moment when you cast your vote for the…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence regarding the families move to Brandfort
… attend to daily. Please think carefully about Cape Town. 27 February 1979 It is not easy to advise you on the question … in Brandfort was followed by…
ArchiveANC 2019 Election Manifesto
… bonds of colonialism, apartheid and patriarchy. On April 27, 1994, we finally held South Africa’s first non-racial, … of South Africans have improved: -…
PlacePilrig House, 1 Rockridge Road, Parktown, Johannesburg
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 May 1988. …
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
… role in South Africa’s liberation struggle and has, since 1994, been part of the ANC-led governing coalition through … lives’: This has been a major area of…
EventSouth Africa's new constitution is approved
… organisations. The constitutional assembly sat between May 1994 and October 1996 drafting and completing the new …
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… in the special court at Pretoria, and they were released. 27 April, The Sisulu's home at Orlando West were searched … for his contribution to the struggle…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… closed, so Mandela practices from Flat 13, Kholvad House. 27 March, Kathrada is one of a handful of people present at a … 1992 Kathrada goes on Hajj, the…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… attack on Soekmekaar police station on 4 January 1980. On 27 November 1980, all three men were sentenced to death. Six … was executed. After the first…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… between the ‘madams’ and their ‘maids’ in post-1994 South Africa and the various scenarios both parties face … the reality of the masked power dynamics which…
Liberation
… Charter adopted during the Community Land Conference in 1994.) The challenge to undo centuries of colonial and … other tourist attractions. In the first six…
Following the January meeting of health ministers in London, a decision is taken that December 1 become World Aids Day
… by a United Nations General Assembly resolution on 27 October 1988. The first World AIDS Day was observed on 1 …
EventSouth Africa's TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… of National Unity (the democratic government since 1994) to help deal with violations of human rights during the …
EventThe TEC decides on Bophuthatswana's incorporation following major unrest
… On 14 March, 1994, the Transitional Executive Council (TEC) management …
EventANC agrees to facilitate SA rugby's return to international games
… place after the first South African non-racial polls of 1994. …